In the pool I’m running this year, we have 2 people that went 12-2 so far. All 8 have picked both Green Bay and New England, so it’s going to come down to the MNF points.
One took 42 points, the other 64. We’ve had 2 other weeks that came down to points. One where both had the same points so it was a coin flip, the other was under both picks so it went to the lower total picked.
Here’s the question. How do you play the points when one is under the total and the other is over? In this case if the total is 53, both are off by 11. Do you still do the coin flip? Or is there a system you use to skip an over or under pick? Like on The Price is Right where the closest without going over wins?
I’ll even take opinion. Just let me know that’s what it is instead of how you actually play it.
Well if you stated beforehand that the person who picked closest to the right number of points would win, with no mention of “not going over,” I feel that that’s an unfair addition as it affects strategy. If this is a rule change consideration for the future, then as long as it’ stated before the players pick, it’s a legitimate rule.
The newspaper I work for runs a “beat the experts” type of thing, and our solution is the coinflip (or in the case of more than two, random draw out of a box).
Garfield, the problem is we’ve never actually had a set rule about this. In the last 7 years it’s never been an issue. I just haven’t thought about it till now. It’s not really changing the rule as much as trying to establish one.
samclem, I kinda figured it might be IMHO, but don’t want you getting lazy on us.
Casey, it’s a weekly payout. Each buy-in is $10 for the week, half of the pot going each week and the other half pooled to an end of season 3 way payout.
Casey, I forgot to mention we’re all pretty competetive so we like to have a single winner each week for bragging rights. Also, weekly wins figure into end of season tiebreakers. Kinda like head to head and overall division wins in the NFL.
If they wind up tied, I’d split the payout funds among those tied. Without a hard and fast rule specific to a situation like this, it seems to be the fairest thing to do.
